(Las Vegas) Cooking robots, AI-controlled appliances and other high-tech kitchen gadgets promise that people will no longer have to cook or prepare drinks for themselves.
Published at 9:38 am.
Rio Yamat Associated Press
There was a lot of news from the world of food and beverages at CES 2024, the Consumer Technology Association's multi-day trade event. Exhibits included a Keurig-like cocktail mixer and a robot barista whose movements are designed to mimic a human making a vanilla latte.
Here are some of the latest technologies that are changing the way meals are prepared, cooked and delivered.
One press is enough
Tech startup Chef AI is introducing what it calls a “real air fryer that works with just the touch of a finger.”
Unlike the air fryer you may have on your kitchen counter right now, Chef AI's version of the popular appliance requires no setting changes. You simply place food in the air fryer, press start, and the air fryer uses artificial intelligence to detect what type of food it is cooking, says Dean Khormaei, the company's CEO.
He said the air fryer would turn even the worst cooks into chefs.
The Chef AI device will be available in the US in September for $250.
Your very own bartender
What is the secret to a perfect dirty martini? Don't worry, the Bartesian cocktail mixer takes the guesswork out of bartenders.
Bartesian's latest version, the Prime, can hold up to four different types of spirits. It costs $369 and will be available later this year.
To do this, you have to select from 60 recipes using a small touchscreen on the device, throw a cocktail glass into the machine and within seconds you have a premium cocktail on ice.
If you prefer a homemade beer, iGulu's new automatic brewing machine allows you to make your own beer: a lager, a brown beer or a wheat beer. All you need to do is pour a pre-mixed recipe into the machine's keg, add water, and scan the sticker that comes with the beer mix. In nine to 13 days you will have a gallon of homemade beer.
A barista robot that moves like you
Artly Coffee's barista robot imitates the way a human behind the counter at their favorite coffee shop prepares their usual order.
“We're really trying to preserve the craft of good coffee,” said Alec Roig, hardware designer at the Seattle-based tech startup, which now has 10 locations in the Northwest, Pacific and New York.
Mr. Roig said the company's resident barista, who is behind all of Artly's coffee recipes, was connected to sensors that recorded his movements as he prepared each recipe, from dosing the coffee in the filter to frothing the milk to art, the latte to serve.